PHD: Poor Helpless and Desperate

Getting a PhD "It's like teaching swimming by tossing students into the deep end of the pool and seeing who makes it to the other end alive and who drown"

Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning, you’re Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you’re Happy